Books Burn
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) DJAKARTA, May 3 Five hundred books condemned for “poisoning the spirit” of the Indonesian people were publicly burned here last night iq the grounds of the Education Ministry. Yesterday was chosen for the book-burning ceremony because it was Indonesia’s National Education Day. Indonesia’s “crush Maialysia committee,” headed by the Public Welfare Minister (Mr Muljadi), announced that the books burned covered political science which supported liberalism, economic science which opposed Indonesia’s “guided economy” theory, and cultural books which “lacked dignity.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30431, 4 May 1964, Page 11
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